Assyrian Dalek, ca. 865 BCE

From Wikipedia: "English: A large wheeled Assyrian battering ram with an observation turret attacks the collapsing walls of a besieged city, while archers on both sides exchange fire. From the North-West Palace at Nimrud, about 865-860 BC; now in the British Museum."

Cute, but the original “Trojan Horse”, that helped win the Trojan War, was probably a siege tower exactly like that. It allowed men to get close enough to the wall – essentially piled rocks mortared with dirt – to use that ram to dig through them.

The scale might be a little different. One is reminded of a lady on a phone-in asking for the identification of a bird, which she described in some detail. “What you have there is a finch” the expert said. To which she replied “I think not. It’s three feet tall.”

This one is probably about three feet tall, too, judging by the size of the archers behind it. So only a little smaller than usual. It makes sense this is where a little Dalek would learn his trade, too, since Assyrians were no strangers to exterminating.